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Intelligence and childlessness.

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Analyses of the National Child Development Study show that more intelligent men and women express preference to remain childless early in their reproductive careers, but only more intelligent women are more likely to remainChildless by the end of their reproductive career.
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This article is published in Social Science Research.The article was published on 2014-11-01. It has received 46 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Childlessness & Population.

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A Treatise on the Family

TL;DR: A Treatise on the Family by G. S. Becker as discussed by the authors is one of the most famous and influential economists of the second half of the 20th century, a fervent contributor to and expounder of the University of Chicago free-market philosophy, and winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in economics.
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Mental Retardation: A Family Study

Richard Koch
- 01 Mar 1966 - 
TL;DR: This is a monumental study of the relatives of 289 persons who lived at Faribault Minnesota State Colony for the Retarded during the years 1911 to 1918—each retardate averaged 25 years of residential care within the institution.
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Personality and voluntary childlessness

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the association between personality and childbearing motivation, with a focus on voluntary childlessness, and found that personality plays a considerable role in influencing individuals towards, or away from, parenthood.
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By their words ye shall know them: Evidence of genetic selection against general intelligence and concurrent environmental enrichment in vocabulary usage since the mid 19th century

TL;DR: It has been theorized that declines in general intelligence (g) due to genetic selection stemming from the inverse association between completed fertility and IQ and the Flynn effect co-occur, with the effects of the latter being concentrated on less heritable non-g sources of intelligence variance.
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Iq and socioeconomic development across regions of the uk.

TL;DR: The paper provides evidence for the validity of the regional IQs by showing that IQ estimates for UK nations derived from the same data are strongly correlated with national PISA scores, and finds that regional IQ is positively related to income, longevity and technological accomplishment; and is negatively related to poverty, deprivation and unemployment.
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Intelligence and birth order in boys and girls

TL;DR: Bjerkedal et al. as mentioned in this paper found that the dependency of IQ scores on birth order does not differ for boys and girls, while the effect of N of older sibs with sex was not significant.
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Intelligence and the X chromosome

Gillian Turner
- 29 Jun 1996 - 
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Mental Retardation: A Family Study

Richard Koch
- 01 Mar 1966 - 
TL;DR: This is a monumental study of the relatives of 289 persons who lived at Faribault Minnesota State Colony for the Retarded during the years 1911 to 1918—each retardate averaged 25 years of residential care within the institution.
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Perspective on Nuptiality and Fertility

TL;DR: Rodgers and Thorpe as mentioned in this paper showed that the proportion of women aged 20-24 who have never married has doubled, from 28 to 58 percent; at ages 25-29, at the US Bureau of the Census, it has risen from 10 to 26 percent.